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Major funding for Backstories provided by Inanonymous Donor, the National Endowment for the Humanities

and the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.

From Virginia Humanities, this is Backstories.

Welcome to Backstories, the show that explains the history behind today's headlines.

I'm Brian Vallow.

I'm Mitt Ers.

And I'm Joanne Freeman.

If you're new to the podcast, each week, along with our colleague Nathan Connelly, we

explore a different part of American history.

As historians, a big part of our job is to dig into the past, try and make sense of

what's happening in the present.

But how do you make sense of history?

For many of us, it's through stories, individual tales of individual people.

There are the big names, ones many of us grew up hearing about like George Washington,

...